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some oldish gwen art

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Ranma!!

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I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

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who is the first david you think of when you hear the name david

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from maggie stiefvater via instagram

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touya and shoto’s friends

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Are glasses (the type you wear on your face to correct your eyesight) in your native language a plural or singular?

In my native language (dutch) we say it's one item, it's called "bril" and it's singular. English says "glasses", and it's plural. I hope i made it clear.

I think the difference is that english refers to the actual two glasses in there, and dutch refers to the one object as a whole. And I'm curious about other languages!

Poll options:

- my native language is english, so it's plural

- native language is not English, but it's still plural

- native language is not english or dutch, and its singular

- my native language is dutch, so it's singular!

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How much do yall think Murtagh's capacities as a warrior were influenced by the Eldunarya? (Apparently that's the plural in english?? I wouldn't know) bc I'm reading "Murtagh" and I feel Christopher took the videogame approach where once you defeat the Boss and they becomes part of your party their capacities go way down, with him

(Spoilers below)

Like, first with the boars and then at the end of Part 3, Chapter 12, I felt he went down too easily, and due to stupid things, for example, when fighting against Bachel and Grieve he tripped and fell (granted, he was starting to feel the fact that he was holding his breath, so that might be why)

And it felt like such a contrast between the guy who made Eragon and Shapira's battles miserable, but then I thought "well, by the Burning Plains, he already had some Eldunarí with him, so Eragon would get tired but Murtagh would get energy from them, which gave him an advantage", so I wonder if it's that?

I think I remember on the first book they were pretty even when they practiced against each other, as were they when Galbatorix made them fight in Inheritance (in which case I remember Eragon won, even tho Eragon had already been blessed by the dragons, and I think Murtagh didn'tuse the Eldunarya? But I might be remembering that part wrong)

I dont know, also I think this post is pretty rambl-y, and usually my Inheritance Cycle posts dont get too much traction so I probably won't get many answers but oh well

I just feel like getting kidnapped bc you tripped is such a cop-out...? Or am I being overly judgy??? I dont know!!! Please help

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idk who needs to hear this but if you have been putting something off bc it doesn't need to be done until the end of the month. we are almost done with the teens we are approaching the big numbers (the twenties). that date shall dawn upon you swiftly and without mercy before you know it. psa for everyone except me i got plany off time

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here's over 2.5K prompts of all sorts you can use for your writing ideas!

happy writing!

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*throws some patterns in your face* These will all be lanyards and probably gold foil washi tape as well. Pattern inspiration from top to bottom: Ukrainian egg dying, Chinese blue porcelain, Japanese kimono motifs, the locked tomb, Norwegian rosemaling

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Art by Servane Altermatt

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Casey McQuiston really said "every protagonist I write will be bisexual" and I think so many of us need that, in these trying times

AKA

Reading The Pairing and just vibrating bisexually 🩷💜💙